new SF cites for the OED SF project

[Mullins, Bill]

I've found others of the "SF" terms on the lists that didn't appear
initially as SF, but evolved from related meanings already extant.
Example:  Sense of Wonder




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> Bill Mullins writes:
> > urban fantasy (OED SF Project has 1993; not in OED)
> [Display Ad for
> > St. Regis Hotel] New York Times Oct 29, 1928;  pg. 19/5
> "Another Urban Fantasy, a bower of the tropic seas,  shimmering with
> emerald-gold and silver fin."
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> >  "An Urban Fantasy" New York Times Book Review Jul 25,
> 1937;  p. 7/4 [phrase appears only in title, not in body of article]
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> The hotel advertisement does not seem connected with the
> literary/SF use of "urban fantasy". The book review headline
> may or may not; it could easily have been coined by the
> reviewer or the editor to describe a story that would not at
> all be considered "fantasy" in literary terms.
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> -- Mark A. Mandel
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